Apple Fires An Engineer After His Daughter’s iPhoneX Video Goes Viral Before Its Release

The iPhone X will drop this week, but if you don’t have to worry about that unless you managed to pre-order Apple’s latest high-end phone. It sold out in minutes and likely won’t be available to those who weren’t quick with their clicking fingers until 2018. But while the impending arrival of a new iPhone is the top story on most Apple fan’s minds, there is a sad side story brewing that highlights the secrecy that surrounds Apple’s product releases.

Brooke Amelia Peterson visited her father at Apple’s campus to get a hands on experience with the iPhone X before its release and to document the experience, she filmed it all for a vlog. The clip shows Peterson showing off an employee version of Apple’s new phone, complete with “sensitive information like codenames for unreleased products and staff-specific QR codes” according Engadget. That would normally be enough for the clip to raise some eyebrows, but Peterson’s vlog also broke Apple’s rules about filming on their campus.

All of this forced the company to fire Peterson’s father over the video, made worse once the clip went viral and spread outside of her own account. This made just removing the clip impossible and placed both sides in a difficult position. As Engadget points out, Apple’s position is understandable due to their need to protect corporate secrets and future ideas. The policies are in place to protect everybody and the company, leaving the need for any infraction to be treated seriously.

No more shopping to solve her problems. In a way its surprising this kinda stuff doesn’t happen more with so many dumb ppl recording and sharing every second of their day. Not sure what is worse, the ppl who make these video blogs or the ones who watch them. I couldn’t even make it to the iphone part,stopped at like 35 second mark.